Lucho Gatica

Lucho Gatica ( Luis Enrique Gatica Silva, born August 11, 1928 in Rancagua ) is a Chilean singer.

Gatica had his first gigs. Than singers at the Teatro Apolo his hometown in a duo of his older brother Arturo Gatica, who also gave him first recordings for Odeon He became known as Contigo en la distancia Boleros, En Nosotros and Sinceridad. International success in Latin America, Portugal and Spain, he had then with titles such as El Reloj, La Barca, Novia Mia and No Me Platiques.

His first international tour started Gatica in 1954 with the orchestra of Roberto Ingles in Buenos Aires. She led him over Uruguay and Brazil to London, where he performed at the BBC recordings and grossed at Parlaphone, including the famous title Bésame mucho. The mid-1950s he joined for weeks in Havana in a crowded theater blanquita, the second largest concert hall in Cuba, the Tropicana Night Club and debuted on television.

In 1956, he went to further recordings to Mexico, where he worked in four feature films. In 1959, he was greeted at the airport of Madrid of 5000 fans. Among his appearances came Royals as well as politicians and movie stars. From this period also dated his friendship with Ava Gardner. This was followed by appearances at Casino Estoril in Portugal.

Early 1960s had already sold 22 million records worldwide Gatica. After a concert at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila before 160,000 spectators in 1964 an appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall followed with a symphony orchestra led by Lalo Schifrin. He then made ​​an appearance with Nat King Cole at the Hollywood Bowl, played with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra English titles for Capitol Records, and was a guest on the television shows of Dinah Shore, Perry Como and Patti Page.

Numerous other recordings and concert tours (including the Middle East and Japan) followed in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The double album Bolero is ... Lucho Gatica, the EMI Spain produced in 1991, was sold in two weeks, four hundred thousand times. Appeared in 1993, the album 40 Years Singing About Love at BMG. In a two-hour broadcast by HBO in 1996 in his honor Gatica has appeared with Julio Iglesias, Celia Cruz, Luis Miguel and Juan Gabriel.

In addition to multiple gold and platinum records Gatica awards include the Congressional Medal of of Ecuador, the Santa Cruz de Triana O'Higgins of the Chilean state and 1992 the Gaviota de Oro at the Festival de Viña del Mar 2007 presented him with the Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, the gold medal of the Chilean Society of Composers. 2008 was awarded to him for his life's work in Las Vegas a Latin Grammy, and he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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  • Lucho Gatica at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Singer
  • Chilean
  • Born in 1928
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